Elden Ring: Scadu of the Nerdtree. 94 OC/95 MC. Is it too hard? Poll.

[IcaroRibeiro]

LegitHyperbole said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

You can only get two Uchigatanas in NG if you started as Samurai. The Uchigatana is a catacomb in Northern Limgrave

Occult Infusion makes your weapon getting scaling with Arcane and increase stats buildup such as bleeding and poison. There are few Ashes of war with occult scaling. The best way to give a weapon occult affinity is using the black whetblade, you can find it in Nokron

It's worse than bleeding infusion when it comes to proccing bleed, but it's add strong arcane scaling so thr damage output is high without compromising your ability to make bosses bleed 

At 80 ARC it's only marginally weaker than Keen Uchigatana with 80 DEX, but with much higher bleed buildup: 

11STR 15DEX **80ARC**:  

Occult Uchigatana = 585AR / 88 Bleed  

11STR **80DEX** 8ARC:    

Keen Uchigatana = 596AR / 45 Bleed

Combined this with Mimic tear and most bosses will bleed in every combo

However be aware some bosses are immune to bleeding, many of them actually. If you don't have many Larval Tears you can go for DEX and change the affinity to Lightning, Keen and Blood Infusions whenever you see fit 

If you really to keep INT and be a magic Samurai I strongly advice to use ranged magic and abuse Moonveil's Ashes of War. Intelligence builds are great, but a good spell blade build is about mid-range fights (using Cold, Ashes of war and some ranged sorceries) and your playstyle looked 100% meele for me 

If you want to meele IMO DEX, ARC and STR are better stats than INT

BTW, what build are you running for the DLC? 

I will start playing DLC tomorrow. Have been on vacation for the last few days. Until undecided on which character move to DLC, most of my characters are NG+1 and NG+2, I think only two are still on NG